Commercial Buildings Initiative

Commercial Building Initiative Workshop: December 10, 2007

Inaugural Planning Event

The December 10^th inaugural Commercial Buildings Initiative workshop was held at the Washington DC Convention center, and was attended by approximately 100 participants. Partner organizations DOE, AIA and ASHRAE sponsored the event. This workshop was intended to introduce the Initiative, to provide a sector-specific forum to define pathways to zero-energy buildings, and to initiate consortium building for membership in CBI. Workshop activities included the following:

• An overview of CBI, including interaction with the founding organizations and the people involved.
• Perspectives from CBI founders including AIA, ASHRAE, USGBC, WBCSD, ASE, and DOE
• Sector-specific breakout groups for national retail, commercial office, and government/institutional to identify:
  • Technology, policy, and market opportunities to realize zero-energy buildings
  • Barriers, solutions, and priority actions to realize zero-energy buildings

Workshop Materials:

• Origins of CBI: Activities to Date
  Steve Selkowitz, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
• Today's Best-practice Buildings: What We Know
  David Hewitt, New Buildings Institute
• Organizing for CBI: Structure and Procedures
  Jeff Harris, Alliance to Save Energy
• Workshop Summary [119 KB]

Breakout Findings:

• National Retail [148 KB]
• Commercial Office (tenanted) [150 KB]
• Government/Institutional (owner-occupied) [171 KB]